Graphic Designers: A Career Analysis

In recent years, the using of digital technology is gaining the popularization in not only people’s life, but also affect heavily on the Artists and Designers’ operative career. No doubt that the numerical technology invades in a human’s world frequently whiles the culture developing, and almost everyone relies on the Internet or their digital devices. Therefore, people are always concerned about whether the technology helps or destroys. From the Artists and Designers’ point of view, creativity is the major selling point of an Artist or Designer; their whole career is depending on it. On the other hand, creativity is something that people can gain by themselves, but also very easy to just take from the peers. In consequence, Graphic designers …show more content…
Except the creation, using the digital software in a designer’s career can take the less time on the processing than the traditional hand making or hand drawing. Phillips and Lupton (2015) stated that in their book, using the digital software such as Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop is the basic skill of a graphic designer, and it can make the work much more efficient. For example, the functions inside software can make the work more precise by the scale plate, more delicate by the different typefaces, and more professional with the various digital tools. In addition, in Phillips and Lupton’s book, also contains a few images of design that only possible done by the digital software, and people cannot think about the ways to use the handcraft for reducing the use of technology. These examples clearly demonstrate that the digital technology makes the Designers’ life easier, and professional standard much higher based on the baseline that have no effect on Designers’ creativity at …show more content…
For example, there are research, sketch, concepts, presentation, delivery and launch. This is a huge process that taking much longer time, if the Designer does not use digital technology to help. There are three most important parts in this creating process, the first is one research, the second one is concepts, and the last one is launch. Researching use the Internet is much easier than find information in the books, and also can quickly find images or download some materials. Come up with the ideas as know as the concepts is the soul of one Designer’s accomplishment, in addition, as the same point of the above paragraph, the internet proved a helpful platform to let the Designers share and communicate their inspirations. The last but not least necessary element is launch; nowadays Designers are using digital files or documents to associate with their clients and hand their works in using the digital form. From the above example, it is clear that apply the skill of using digital technology in the modern Graphic Design region is so valuable and useful, and almost no effect on their personal